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Award Season Four Harvey Mudd College seniors—Sam Gutekunst, Miranda Parker, Sheena Patel and Jeremy Usatine—are recipients of this year’s National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, which recognize outstanding students pursuing advanced degrees in the STEM disciplines. Six recent Harvey Mudd graduates also received the prestigious fellowships. Gutekunst (mathematics) will pursue operations research or combinatorics, Parker (computer science) will be a PhD candidate at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing, Patel (physics) will study experimental condensed matter physics at University of California, San Diego, and Usatine (mathematics) will enter Yale’s PhD program in mathematics. Harvey Mudd senior Matthew McDermott (mathematics) received an honorable mention.
Sam Gutekunst ’14
Miranda Parker ’14
Other awards this spring included: Outstanding Group Student Leadership Award
The Asian Pacific Islander Sponsor Program at Mudd (API-SPAM) was recognized for its dedication to relationship building within the Harvey Mudd community and for sustaining a culturally conscious mentoring program for students who identify as API. API-SPAM head sponsors Ginah Han ’14 and Bruce Yan ’15 accepted the award.
Sheena Patel ’14
Udall Award
Priya Donti ’15, a joint computer science/mathematics major with an emphasis in environmental analysis, received a Udall Foundation Honorable Mention, the first such award for a Harvey Mudd College student. A volunteer with the club Mudders Making a Difference, Donti is a teacher and lesson writer for Science Bus, a program that brings hands-on science lessons to elementary school students, and she is co-president of the student environmental club Engineers for a Sustainable World/Mudders Organizing for Sustainability Solutions (ESW/MOSS). She intends to pursue a PhD in environmental computer science research. She is most passionate about addressing global warming and the energy crisis. Spacapan Memorial Scholarship
Established by family and friends in memory of Harvey Mudd Professor of Psychology Shirlynn
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Spacapan, this scholarship recognizes a student who has been highly involved in community service. This year's recipient, Brittany Borg ’15, volunteered at Uncommon Good, a community organization seeking to build healthy families and communities. Borg helped create energy modeling for their Whole Earth Building Project and was active in Science Bus, among other projects. Diversity, Community and Wellness
The Office of Institutional Diversity honored students Chris Zazueta ’14 (Society of Professional Latinos in STEMs, Uncommon Good) and Morgan Mastrovich ’16 (South Dorm mentor, Privilege Walk) with the Outstanding Commitment to Diversity award for leadership in promoting the understanding of diversity and social justice.
Jeremy Usatine ’14